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Ayurveda (science of life)

Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)

Source: Shodhganga: Dietetics and culinary art in ancient and medieval India

Guḍodana (गुडोदन) refers to “rice cooked with jaggery” and represents one of the six kinds of “cooked rice” (bhakta) as described in the 17th century Bhojanakutūhala (dravyaguṇāguṇa-kathana), and is commonly found in literature dealing with the topics of dietetics and culinary art, also known as Pākaśāstra or Pākakalā.—[...] Cooked rice dishes are of six types based upon the different ingredients used along with rice. These, collectively called as ṣaḍvidhānna. They are [viz., guḍodana (rice cooked with jaggery)]. To describe this ṣaḍvidhānna the author quotes an Ayurvedic text namely Kriyāsāra.

(Guḍodana ingredients): rice, milk, jaggery and plantain fruit. (Cooking instructions): Add three measures of milk and one and half measures of water to the cooked rice. To this add jaggery which is half the quantity of milk (6:2:1). This mixture is known as pāyasa. To this pāyasa, ghee, which is half the quantity of jaggery and plantain fruits are added. This preparation is known as guḍodana.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Guḍdana (गुड्दन).—rice boiled with coarse sugar; Y.1. 33.

Derivable forms: guḍdanam (गुड्दनम्).

Guḍdana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms guḍa and odana (ओदन).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Guḍodana (गुडोदन):—[from guḍa] = guḍaud, [xiii, 6162].

[Sanskrit to German]

Gudodana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Odana, Guda.

Full-text: Kshiraudana, Ragakhandava, Ragakhadava, Bhakta, Guda.

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